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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the motto of the New Brewery in Gildsey?
(a) Ex Aqua Fermentum.
(b) Sine Qua Non.
(c) E Pluribus Unum.
(d) Quid Pro Quo.

2. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
(a) Eager.
(b) Curious.
(c) Passive.
(d) Aloof.

3. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?
(a) A wrench Dick uses to fix his motorbike.
(b) A metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.
(c) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.
(d) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
(a) An obese matron.
(b) Pudding.
(c) Phlegm.
(d) Quicksand.

5. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?
(a) Liberal Arts.
(b) Geography.
(c) General Studies.
(d) Civics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

2. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?

3. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?

4. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?

5. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

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